Chinese Government Is Behind a Decade of Hacks On Software Companies, Says Report (arstechnica.com) 81
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Researchers said Chinese intelligence officers are behind almost a decade's worth of network intrusions that use advanced malware to penetrate software and gaming companies in the US, Europe, Russia, and elsewhere. The hackers have struck as recently as March in a campaign that used phishing emails in an attempt to access corporate-sensitive Office 365 and Gmail accounts. In the process, they made serious operational security errors that revealed key information about their targets and possible location. Researchers from various security organizations have used a variety of names to assign responsibility for the hacks, including LEAD, BARIUM, Wicked Panda, GREF, PassCV, Axiom, and Winnti. In many cases, the researchers assumed the groups were distinct and unaffiliated. According to a 49-page report published Thursday, all of the attacks are the work of Chinese government's intelligence apparatus, which the report's authors dub the Winnti Umbrella. Researchers from 401TRG, the threat research and analysis team at security company ProtectWise, based the attribution on common network infrastructure, tactics, techniques, and procedures used in the attacks as well as operational security mistakes that revealed the possible location of individual members.
first 15 posts are all trolls (Score:3, Insightful)
Holy cow. I'm posting this after 15 posts have appeared an all of them are flamers and trolls. not a single engaging post. Is this some sort of chinese response to supress coherent discussion. I have a hard time thinking this is actually a representative sampling of slashdot. No I'm not new here. I'm being serious. this is slightly alarming and in a way news itself.
Now to distinguish this post I'll add some content here.
It's easily noticed that many countries accused of harboring state sponsored weap
Re: first 15 posts are all trolls (Score:5, Funny)
You tell 'em, Comrade Li Feng! There is absolutely no such thing as a Chinese fifty cent army!
Emperor Xi always pays us in renminbi...
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Punch a Nazi win a prize. I hope he goes down.
Did they finally find it? (Score:1)
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Welp, another clickbaity content-free crapticle I can safely skip. Thanks, BeauHD!
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Welp, another clickbaity content-free crapticle I can safely skip. Thanks, BeauHD!
Sorry, it didn't fit your Chinese agenda?
Something wrong with the Asian moral compass? (Score:1)
Seriously, look at the history of prisoner atrocities commited by Asian captors. At some point you have to wonder what the fuck is wrong with these people.
How did they attribute the attack? (Score:1)
Besides one block of ip address assigned to China unicom, what other evidence do they have? Is it simply because many targets were political attacks?
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Besides one block of ip address assigned to China unicom, what other evidence do they have? Is it simply because many targets were political attacks?
What evidence do we have that you're not a Chinese troll?
CHina and RUssia are at war with the west (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes, they are hitting the west VERY HARD. The amount of spying going on here is incredible.
Trump has it right in finally addressing CHina's economic war on America. Sadly, he is speaking about it, but really doing very little.
BUT, when he goes after allies at the same time, esp when they are NOT dumping on us, that is just insane.
It is time for the gov to start putting up real national security (i.e. go back to FBI doing the background checks), do decent checks on sub-contractors. etc.
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I'm sure the US gov't hacks into their military-related affairs. But theirs goes beyond military-related.
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I don't disbelieve the story, at all, but I still think you misunderstand it. Countries have no permanent allies. They are ALL ruled by self-seeking power-hungry individuals. (If they weren't like that, they would never have reached the top. The techniques differ, but not the goals.) And they all spy on each other in any way that won't be too blatant, and especially in any way that's deniable.
Please Note: I am not excepting the US. We've been caught at this several times.
This isn't war, this is the c
Well, your "reports" say alot of crazy things (Score:1)
and as always there is no solid evidence. They are just accusations that focus on a goal that is on the agenda. These days it's to accuse China and Russia for doing things they've never done, that you've done yourself for many years, and then accuse anyone of pointing out your hypocrisy for engaging in "whataboutism".
Nobody believes you any more.
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Nobody believes you any more."
Nobody believes ACs aren't here trolling the forum on behalf of some nation states.
Weird Timing (Score:1)
The timing of this is weird. First we had terrorists which were the worst problem. Now the terrorism problem is maybe 100 times worse but now the Russians are taking over the world. Shouldn't we be giving it a bit more time before raising the Chinese to first enemy? I mean we haven't gotten the message yet 'never mind the russians here is the *real* enemy!'
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When I'm being told I have to give up my rights to enable a fight against a huge danger: the terrorists, and then all kinds of things are done with a side effect to increase the number massively, and then it's not such a problem anymore, then I'm not inclined to have any trust in claims that now Russia is the big boogeyman, and then China.
There is a war in Afghanistan for 16 years now, but I'm told there is nothing to see there.
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Disarm the commoners!!!!!1!1!111!!!!!
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Who the hell modded this tripe up???
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I think you misunderstand the economic realities, but, yes, if you want to protect yourself against the Chinese, those are reasonable actions. Unfortunately, it would be wise to secure your utility networks, etc. before action. And economically it would probably hurt the US a lot more than it hurt China. If you default on Chinese held securities your credit rating with everyone else will quickly drop to ZZZ, or less unless you've got solid grounds that THEY will accept. Even the less extreme action of f
General Melchett (Score:2)
Captain Darling:
So you see, Blackadder, Field Marshall Haig is most anxious to eliminate all these German spies.
General Melchett:
Filthy hun weasels, fighting their dirty underhand war!
Captain Darling:
And fortunately, one of our spies...
General Melchett:
Splendid fellows, brave heroes risking life and limb for Blighty!
Are we allowed to talk about this?? (Score:3)
For a year, Slashdot has basically been a Trump and Russia bandwagon while completely ignoring the countless examples of China using nation-state sponsered hacks to steal BILLIONS in tech, weapons, and nuclear secrets while everyone in the media, congress, and Slashdot goes "russia! russia! russia!"
So, are we finally allowed to talk about the fact that China actually has a war machine "at parity" with the US military (and Russia doesn't), and that they make up over half of all internet attacks? (Russia doesn't.) And they literally were caught red handed directly financing a political party in the 90's nicknamed "Chinagate" and actual people went to jail? Oh, wait, but that was Bill Clinton and the Democratic party. I'm sorry. Please... I'm so sorry.
Not just software companies (Score:2)
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